News from Jerusalem

Deputy Chief of Iran’s Armed Forces Gen. Mohammad Hejazi issued a new threat Tuesday, Feb. 21: “Our strategy now is that if we feel our enemies want to endanger Iran’s national interests… we will act without waiting for their actions.”

Article calls for Iranian strike on Israel.
Detailed plans to destroy Israel.
Netanyahu: We heard Iranian ruler call for our destruction.

Iran should allow full access to nuclear sites by IAEA.
Israel must protect itself; potential strike would be aimed only at nuclear targets.
Crippling sanctions may still preclude need for strike.

JERUSALEM – In response to any future Israeli military strike on its nuclear sites, Iran has been training al-Qaida elements in the Egyptian Sinai desert on how to coordinate retaliatory attacks, a senior Egyptian security official told WND.

The Pentagon is watching for the possibility that Israel could use the occasion of an alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States as a pretext for launching a long-anticipated attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

A new report from Britain’s MI6 intelligent agency confirms the situation in the Middle East is tailor-made for Hezbollah to strike at Israel, especially since the terrorist group recently received a supply of state-of-the art missiles from Iran, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

Readers often don’t get past a headline — or, at best, the first few lines of a news story. That’s why journalism 101 calls for providing the essentials about an event — who, what, where, when, why — at the very beginning of an article. An April 2 BBC Web site posting flunked the test in a story about an Israeli strike on Gaza

Israel does not need American permission to strike Iran, said Shabtai Shavit, former chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, in an exclusive interview with Aaron Klein, WND’s Jerusalem bureau chief.

Amid growing speculation of an Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen is in Israel for discussions with military personel while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is en-route to Moscow for meetings with top Russian officials.